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Strange Craft, Strange History, Strange Folks: Cultural Amnesia and the Case for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Author(s) -
Roscoe Will
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1995.97.3.02a00030
Subject(s) - lesbian , homosexuality , scholarship , gender studies , male homosexuality , sociology , ethnic group , diversity (politics) , psychoanalysis , psychology , anthropology , law , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , political science , medicine , syphilis , men who have sex with men , family medicine
The academy today is only vaguely aware that its racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual makeup does not reflect the diversity of the society that surrounds it. When the university fails to encompass lesbian and gay studies, it loses not only knowledge of the presence of homosexuality in history and culture but analysis of homophobia and the role it has played in constructing the present. What is at stake is the integrity of the Western tradition of scholarship. The question is whether its studies can be objective, thorough, accurate, and complete‐in a word, scholarly‐as long as subjects like homosexuality, homosexual persons, and homophobia are systematically excluded.